From the wire services: [color:blue]The Pentagon, which also consumes one-sixth of the overall budget, would get a whopping 11 percent increase, to $481.4 billion in its core budget. And that is before accounting for an additional $235 billion in war costs over the next year and a half.</font color=blue><br><br>That's over 700 billion dollars for "defense." And counting, no doubt. It's just incomprehensible to me.<br><br>

The health care that could be made available with that kind of money, the social security and domestic aid programs, the education improvements, the infrastructure upgrades — all the positive things that money like that could bring... Now that's comprehensible.<br><br>But when you step back and view the six-year history of this mockery of an administration, there's been little done that isn't incomprehensible. We've got a madman in the oval office, and no one's bringing the net.<br><br>

To heck [I'm so careful to have a civil tongue ] with health care. If the climate change stuff is even 10% right, not attending to it is not just stupid, it's positively a dereliction of duty on the part of the decider and his cronies. Talk about threat to national security (although if the ocean levels rise as much as they are saying, much of Florida will disappear under water, so climate change is not a complete loss [sorry Floridians on the forum ], but so will all of Venice, Italy that is, and that definitely is a crime against humanity). How much is spent on trying to get control of global warming?<br><br>

You have a point there. If we're under water, what the hell (civil tongue my bippy) do we need health care for? Or social security? Or schools (well, if we're gonna be fish...). Or peace for that matter?<br><br>I say bring back those fluorocarbons! Chop down those forests! Pump up that CO2! Yeah baby, let's get HOT HOT HOT!<br><br>

About the net ~ reminded me of this, from the Incomparable Ms. Dowd:<br><br><br>[color:blue] James Baker ran after W. with a butterfly net for a while, but it is now clear that the inmates are still running the asylum.</font color=blue><br><br> Farewell, Dense Prince<br><br><br>Uh, the column is from December and it's about Rumsfeld's departure . . . but it's still a great read.<br><br><br><br>Apologies for a near thread hijack . . . I just have to test these sharky waters . . . <br><br><br><br><br><br>[color:blue] Talk about things and nobody cares . . .</font color=blue>

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